Below is the complete list of Jerry B. Jenkins books in order. For each series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of AirQuest Adventures Books
Publication Order of The Bradford Family Adventures Books
Publication Order of The Chosen Books
Publication Order of Dallas O’Neil Mysteries Books
Publication Order of Dallas O’Neil and the Baker Street Sports Club Books
Publication Order of Dead Sea Chronicles Books
Publication Order of End Times Books
Publication Order of The Jennifer Grey Mysteries Books
Publication Order of I, Saul Books
Publication Order of The Jesus Chronicles Books
with Tim LaHaye
Publication Order of Left Behind Books
with Tim LaHaye
Publication Order of Left Behind: The Kids Books
with Tim LaHaye, Chris Fabry
Publication Order of Before They Were Left Behind Books
with Tim LaHaye
Publication Order of The Margo Mysteries Books
Publication Order of Precinct 11 Books
Publication Order of The Red Rock Mysteries Books
with Chris Fabry
Publication Order of The Renegade Spirit Books
Publication Order of Thirteen Books
Publication Order of Tara Chadwick Books
Publication Order of Toby Andrews and the Junior Deputies Books
Publication Order of Underground Zealot Books
Publication Order of The Wormling Books
with Chris Fabry
Publication Order of Standalone Books
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books
Publication Order of Left Behind: The Kids Collection Books
with Tim LaHaye, Chris Fabry
About Jerry B. Jenkins
Jerry B. Jenkins is an American author whose exceptionally large bibliography spans Christian fiction, apocalyptic thrillers, mysteries, sports writing, biography, children’s books, and novels tied to major screen properties. He is most closely associated with Left Behind, the bestselling end-times series created with theologian Tim LaHaye, but that success came well into an already substantial writing career. With more than 210 books published and over 73 million copies sold, Jenkins has worked across fiction and nonfiction for more than five decades.
Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1949, Jenkins began professionally as a sports writer. That background became an important strand of his career rather than a temporary starting point. He later wrote the nationally syndicated sports comic strip Gil Thorp and produced biographies and collaborative books involving prominent athletes, including Hank Aaron, Walter Payton, Nolan Ryan, Orel Hershiser, Mike Singletary, and Meadowlark Lemon. His nonfiction work eventually ranged far beyond sports, combining biography, memoir collaboration, Christian subjects, marriage and family writing, and books on the craft of writing.
Jenkins also held significant editorial and publishing roles. He served as editor of Moody Magazine and later as vice president for publishing at the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. The combination of newsroom discipline, editing experience, publishing knowledge, and years of high-volume professional writing helps explain one of the clearest characteristics of his fiction: direct narrative movement. His novels tend to emphasize momentum, accessible prose, strong plot turns, and characters placed under immediate moral or physical pressure.
The defining collaboration of his career began with Left Behind in 1995. LaHaye originated the concept and supplied the prophetic and theological framework, while Jenkins shaped the material as narrative fiction. The story of the Rapture, the Tribulation, the rise of Nicolae Carpathia, and the resistance of the Tribulation Force grew into a vast publishing phenomenon. The core adult sequence expanded through twelve principal novels, three prequels, and the concluding Kingdom Come, while the wider franchise produced additional branches for younger readers and other related works. For Jenkins, the series transformed a long-established professional career into international recognition.
Yet Left Behind represents only one part of a remarkably dispersed bibliography. Jenkins has written standalone novels such as Riven, crime fiction including the Precinct 11 books, and collaborative speculative or adventure series for younger readers. With Chris Fabry, he worked on projects including the Red Rock Mysteries and the Wormling series. His long output also includes earlier mystery, youth, sports, and family-oriented series that can appear quite separate from the apocalyptic fiction for which he became famous.
Another major collaboration with LaHaye produced the Jesus Chronicles, a sequence of biblical historical novels centered on the traditional Gospel writers. In a later phase of his career, Jenkins became closely connected with The Chosen, the television drama created by his son Dallas Jenkins. His novels based on the series translate its screen interpretation of the life and ministry of Jesus into prose, extending his longstanding involvement with biblical and Christian storytelling into a contemporary multimedia franchise.
Jenkins has also been an accomplished biographer and collaborator behind other public figures’ stories. Among his most notable contributions was assisting Billy Graham with the evangelist’s memoir Just As I Am. This aspect of his work shows why a simple label such as “Christian novelist” does not fully describe his career: he has repeatedly moved between authored fiction, co-authorship, biography, editorial work, and projects in which another person’s experiences or ideas provide the foundation.
His bibliography is therefore best understood through its major clusters rather than as one continuous progression. Left Behind forms the dominant apocalyptic sequence; The Chosen novels represent a later biblical-fiction phase; his sports and celebrity biographies belong to a substantial nonfiction career; and numerous mysteries, youth adventures, collaborations, and standalones fill out a body of work notable for both volume and range. Across those different forms, Jenkins’s strongest continuity is his identity as a working storyteller—one whose career was extensive long before his most famous series turned him into one of the best-known authors in modern Christian publishing.

































































































































































































































